My little Short Stories 2- Paradise Edition

by Paradise Oasis


A terrifying Proposal

A Terrifying Proposal

Five o' clock on a Friday, and the regular crowd was shuffling into the Satin Slipper. Having finished their jobs in the castle on the day shift, and it was now time to sit back and relax. Pegasus, unicorns, and earth ponies... all came here to just sit back and relax for awhile. Among the group was a frequent visitor from Hoofkaido, one whom often came here to meet with a friend she rarely got to see. She only had to look around at the incoming crowd of mares and stallions, before her Pegasus friend spotted her.

"Twilight Sky, there you are!" The twinkle-eyed mare trotted over to her sitting down at the table in the corner. "And you've ordered our usual strawberry shakes, I see."

"Oh, hey there, Locket! So wonderful to see you again!" The Pegasus with the candle cutie mark replied. "So, how're things in the jail warden biz?"

"Ugh, as miserable and unhappy as ever, and THAT'S why I love it!" Locket replied with a nervous laugh. "Today was really a mess, though. We had a few alicornist extremists from New Equestria we had to put under lock and key. They tried to put a death curse on one of the rainbow monks, but we caught em' and got em' behind bars." The twinkle-eyed Pegasus sighed. "I really don't like those annoying troublemakers, coming up north and trying to start trouble here in Ponyland. I hope Queen Majesty gives em' the death penalty."

"Oh, how sad." Twilight replied sadly. "You know Locket, they're only trying to bring back their lost way of life. Their goddesses are gone, their religion is considered obsolete... try to see it from their viewpoint, they're scared."

"Well, scared or not, there are other ways they could air their grievances against us Horsemasterists in a more civilized manner." Locket grumbled, taking a sip of her milkshake. "Anyway, how's the grim reaper business? Move a lot of bodies recently?"

"Unfortunately, yes I did. Three elderly ponies, a middle aged stallions with a poor diets who had a heart attack, and a married pony couple who were on vacation and tried something naughty with the cleaning machine in their hotel swimming pool." Twilight Sky shook her head. "I can't believe how stupid some of the ponies I escort to the afterlife can get."

"Yeesh, and I thought I had it bad, being a prison warden and all." The other mare replied, taking another sip from her milkshake.

The two then sat there in silence for a few minutes, and the wheels began turning in Locket's cunning pony brain. She thought about the problems with the alicornists, and she thought about what powers her friend had over equine life and death. An idea finally forming in her head, the mare finally looked back up at her fellow Pegasus, and spoke.

"Say, Sky... it's your job to take pony souls on to the afterlife, right?" The pony warden asked curiously, cocking her head to one side. "For our race, you're the bridge between this world, and the next."

"Yeah, that's about right." Twilight Sky replied nervously, raising an eyebrow. "Why do you ask, Locket? What crazy idea are you cooking up this time?"

"Well, I was just thinking... if you can take ponies on to the next world, what about bringing them back?" Locket asked, her face brightening at the thought. "Sky... what if, as a gesture of goodwill to the alicornists, you brought their two most revered goddess back from the after world?"

"WHAT?!?" The other Pegasus shrieked, nearly spitting her milkshake out at her friend's face in surprise. "Are you insane?! Locket, Princess Celestia is in the friendship gardens- PONY HEAVEN! I can't just bring her back to the world of the living!" She stamped her hoof on the table. "Her body is long tuned to dust! Do you have any idea what she might come back as?"

"Now just hold on for a minute, Sky. Just think for a moment." Locket protested, putting her hooves up in the air. "If Celestia came back, she could take charge down their in New Equestria- bring a little order to those trouble makers. It doesn't matter how she comes back, so long as thy can be goddess to her worshipers again, and bring them back under control."

"Locket, we have NO idea how that might upset the balance of nature, how the natural order might be thrown into chaos!" Twilight Sky groaned, slumping back into her chair. "Besides, Celestia has been in the friendship gardens for seven hundred years! Do you really think she'd be happy with returning to the mortal world with all it's troubles again? And who's to ay we'd get back the sweet and loving alicorn princess who died so long ago, ponies change over time, even dead ones!"

"All right, it was just an idea..." Locket sighed in defeat, going back to her milkshake.

But the idea had now been planted into Locket's brain, and it would only grow as more time passed. Using the powers fate had entrusted to her to revive the dead... it seemed like such a flagrant abuse of power, and with any normal pony she would never had allowed this thought to enter her brain. But alicorns were immortal anyway, were they not? Celestia's life had only ended because of the actions of evil beings, she did not die naturally of old age, it was not the horsemaster's will that ended her life. Perhaps,,, perhaps she could be returned to life, to once again serve as a spiritual leader for the world's alicornists. What harm could it possibly do to restore an already immortal being to life?

And that.... is where the trouble began...